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[Paper Aflutter]

Masterful

The frame by frame of the paper folding into the crane was, hands down, the most skillful use of shadows I've seen in a Flash Movie. Did the origami book you were looking at have the gradients, or did you create them out of thin air?

Detesticus responds:

I actually used an Origami book for resources, and reproduced what I saw.

[Arrogancy: Chapter 3 (SV)]

Nice!

Very pretty animation! However, I have the same problem with this as I did with Vampire Hunter Ina: most of the "action" scenes aren't framed by framed, but just tweened symbols followed by a white screen to indicate a hit, then more tweened symbols showing the results of that hit. Ever since seeing Genryu's Blade, where each slash, each kick, involved 8-9 different frames with 30-40 painstackingly placed symbols representing different body parts see from different perspectives, I just couldn't give stuff like yours a 10 anymore.
The sound was a bit lackluster, too, but hey, you made it yourself!

arrogancy responds:

Please don't compare my animation to Vampire Hunter Ina. It took me too long to painstakenly draw and time those frames to compare it to a movie without ANY frame-by frame. Not to mention that the real version has voice acting, which also took frame by frame, and I did my own music instead of using some top - 50 rock song. :)

All of my punches/kicks contained AT LEAST 3-4 frames of animation from the person doing it. That's what jumps the file size up, after all.

It's incomparable to Genyu's Blade because, being a one-shot, he had enough time to do whatever he pleased. Having a series in which you have to constantly worry about file size and the timing of episodes doesn't allow you to do that. And his chracters were slightly less complex than mine, allowing him more room in his frame by frame.

[Destroyer Clocks]

Lol!

I can't believe someone made a parody of my animation! Hahahahahhaha!! This is the best compliment that anyone on NG has paid me!

And to traekwon_ : of course I can't kill the clocks. They're flash symbols, silly!

BurritoClock responds:

It is, it's all in good fun. I wish more people could comprehend that! It's just flash people! heh heh

[Vampire Hunter INA]

The graphics are there, but......

First of all, I'd like to commend you on a very nicely put together animation. The gore and nudity for the sake of gore and nudity put me off quite a bit, but hey, that's what the average NGer wants, and who are you(or I) to complain?

However, I just couldn't find it in myself to care about the main character. She shows up, chops up vampire, looks really good, and then leaves. The animation is no more than a gore fest without too much attention to atmosphere or character developement.

And the superb grahics simply weren't superb enough to cover that up, as it did in, say, Genryu's Blade. By comparison, your movements werent as smooth, the character designs weren't as pretty, and the backgrounds didn't look as cool... I guess I was simply spoiled by studying GB and Ninjai frame-by-frame to learn their animation techniques.

ImageNation responds:

Thanks for the review and we can understand how you couldn't grow attached to her. this was after all just an attempt to introduce her. Also the animation had to have limits to it not place on by us but by flash and the net in general. we decided to cut down the animation in order to fit more in the cartoon is after all over 6 minutes. Any how thanks for the review.

[Flash Tournament: Fight 1]

that's a great idea!

When pikachu came on stage with the Pokemon music blaring I laughed out loud. However, the graphics really weren't that great. Since the characters didn't move that much, you could have easily traced them outta stills of the show.
Go online, download some pictures, import em into flash, convert to symbol, go to window->panel->effect->alpha, lower it to about 50% or so, and then put another layer over it and trace the pictures with the pencil tool. Easy as can be.
And one more thing, STREAM THE AUDIO!!! Something like this shoulda been 500, 600k, tops.

the-adversary responds:

I know the graphics arent that good, but i dont think i should trace, because in the next fight vegitas in hell move around a lot more, and i wanted to keep it in my style.